#meredith and yondu

[toaverse]

Run fast for your mother

Run fast for your father

Run for your children

For your sisters and brothers

[abydell]

Meredith Quill gets Yondu to take a selfie with her to send to Peter.

[yaka-arrow]

infectin' y'all with dumb AU ideas, don't mind me. ficlet below the cut.

“Whatcha namin’ him again?”

“Peter.” Meredith said, gently shifting the newborn in her arms. To say she was done for the day was putting it mildly. She ached everywhere, exhausted and sweaty, and more than a little terrified to take her first trip to the bathroom. At that moment, all Meredith wanted in life was to stuff her face with something hot and artery-clogging, then promptly fall asleep with her baby boy safe beside her.

Instead, she had a cantankerous blue asshole to deal with. Beside her hospital bed, Yondu frowned as he took a good look at the newly named baby. “Pee-ta?”

“Peter.” She said, with more patience than she felt. If he started any nonsense, the hospital would find themselves with a unique surgical need to remove her foot from his ass in record time. Her eyes narrowed as his frown deepened.

“I don’t like it. I keep tellin’ ya, he could always take my name—”

“Yondu Udonta, until you’ve gone and pushed a baby through your cooch, I don’t give a rat’s ass that you don’t like his name.” Meredith said sharply. “You ain’t in charge here, I am, now hush your mouth.”

Yondu’s mouth opened. Yondu’s mouth clamped shut.

Meredith gave him a stern look before easing herself back into the pillow. She ran a thumb gently over Peter’s brow, his little face still all scrunched up and red. Her baby boy, ready to face the galaxy. The stern expression melted into something softer as she said quietly, “…I want him to have something to hold on for back home.”

“I thought ya said the Eclector was home.” Yondu muttered, slumping back in his chair. “What’s a name gotta do with it?”

“…I meant Terra, Blue.” Meredith said, reaching out to cover his hand with hers. “Look, Peter’s gonna be gallivantin’ across the galaxy, same as you do every day. But he can’t have his head in the clouds if he don’t have a strong foundation.”

Her thumb rubbed lightly over his knuckles, before he flipped his hand up and wove their fingers together. Meredith smiled at the warmth radiating between their clasped hands, saying, “Got ourselves a new troublemaker here, you know that?”

“Joy. Like ya ain’t enough trouble yerself.” Yondu said with a soft snort. His hand untangled from hers, both held out for Peter. “C’mere, let me see the brat already.”

“Watch his head now, you gotta be gentle.” Meredith said, easing Peter into Yondu’s arms. “And stop callin’ him a brat.”

All that fretting turned out to be for nothing as Yondu tucked Peter close, nestled safe and sound in the crook of a solid arm. He smirked at her, earning a roll of her eyes and a soft scoff. Meredith took her chance to get comfortable, sighing when the tension faded from her sore and aching body. She would be hurting for a while yet, but the nurses swore up and down she would make a fast recovery.

That recovery would be made all the faster with some food in her belly. As if on cue, the door to the hospital room slid open, a harried Kraglin darting inside with a bag of something that smelled wonderfully greasy. The poor man was slightly blue in the face, the color high in his normally wan cheeks, sucking in a deep breath. “Ain’t…ain’t no ‘berg’ joints ‘round here, whatever they are, but I found this li’l Aakon takeout place that I reckon ya’d like.”

Meredith knew better than to laugh, smiling as he placed the bag into her lap. “Aw, Kraglin, don’t tell me you ran the whole way back.”

“Ya pushed out a whole baby, I knew ya was gonna be hungry.” He mumbled. Meredith caught him gently by the collar of his flightsuit, dragging him down to smack a kiss against his cheek and earning a furious blush.

“You’re a peach, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.” She said, happily opening the containers for the food inside. Meredith cut a glance towards Yondu. “Especially this guy here.”

“Don’t start none, Quill.” Yondu warned her, kicking his boots up on her bed. Peter was content in his arms, his soft little snuffles accompanying Yondu’s growl. He grinned, hooking a large finger into Peter’s tiny fist. “S’right, ya tell yer mama.”

“So what’d ya name him?” Kraglin asked, taking up the chair on the other side of her bed. 

Meredith flapped her hand at him to give her a moment, her mouth already stuffed with the greasy food. It tasted like heaven, exactly what the doctor didn’t order. As she swallowed, she managed out, “Peter.”

Kraglin looked at her, baffled as he repeated slowly, “Pee-ta? What kinda name is that?”

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: What if the light had stayed with Meredith? This work is the first part in a series that answers that question. It reverses the timeline of the movies; Ego is dealt with in this work, and Ronan in the next. I always thought it was a little lame that Meredith's function in the movies (and comics, actually) is just to give birth to Peter and then die. I think Peter would agree; his mother was more than that. This is a fic to illuminate what might have happened if Meredith Quill had followed her son to space. If you like handyman badass secretly-cinnamon-roll Kraglin, emotional sassy mothering Meredith, grumbly badass angst-covering Yondu, and peppy pickpocket rambunctious Peter, then this fic is for you. Meredith Quill, Mother of the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Author: TheBetterAngelsOfOurNature

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Got a fun game for anyone who wants to play. If Peter Quill/Star-Lord was given a mixtape of 1990s/2000s music, what would the playlist be for the 1st movie?

To help everyone out, here are the scenes that have a specific song:

1) The Guardians are getting booked into prison / Quill gets hosed down

2) Quill flies away from Morag after stealing the Power Stone

3) Trailer song that isn’t in the movie

4) The Guardians fly into Knowhere

5) Quill and Gamora almost kiss / pelvic sorcery

6) Young Quill is outside his mom’s hospital room, moments before she dies

7) End song where the Guardians fly off triumphantly

8) Quill dances in the opening credits

9) The Guardians prepare for the final battle with Ronan

10) Quill gets his stuff back from the Nova Corps before rejoining the team

11) Quill sings and dances to this song to distract Ronan

12) Triumphant montage after the group defeated Ronan

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Personally, this is what I would say:

“Yeah” by Usher, Ludacris, and Lil Jon replaces “Come and Get Your Love” as the song that Quill dances to at the start.

“I Wanna Know” by Joe replaces “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” as the song that Quill and Gamora almost kiss to.

[lovesaved]

pete.r quil.l? absolutely blackout drunk on shitty space liquor on fathers day? what about it??

[lydiahosek]

#who wrote the meta that peter's superpower is love? #that's what inspired this btw

peter quill + the four loves | guardians of the galaxy vol. 1 & vol. 2

“You feel…love!”

“Yeah, I guess - yeah, I feel a general unselfish love for everyone…”

[tamsinsfanfictionrecs]

Fanfiction Recommendation 29: Rage and Glory (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Rage and Glory - Sholio - Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]

When Yondu picks up Peter Quill, something else comes aboard his ship . . .

@laylainalaska is the writer and other good fics. give them a shout if you enjoyed

[raccoon-coded]

Probably the biggest plothole in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise is how every single alien Rocket meets refers to him as a different Terran animal.

How do people who have never been to Earth, and know very little of its culture, know so much about its animals?

Are Terran animals being trafficked out in space? I know the High Evolutionary was taking them from Earth so I guess it's not impossible. But I have my doubts about that theory.

Or do they have other animals in space that share the same names as Terran animals and just so happen to remind them of Rocket in appearance? Idk, for the most part that doesn't seem very plausible.

I'd give Yondu a pass on rat because for many years he lived with Peter who could have told him stories about Earth animals. And also I'd buy that space rats are a thing.

I guess I can give Ego a pass too because he visited Earth a few times for Meredith. Although he visited America, which means he's more likely to know what a raccoon is than what a monkey is. (Although I can't imagine him paying much attention to these things.) Unless space monkeys are a thing.

One more thing is that, while Peter obviously knew what a raccoon was, Trash Panda is a fairly new term which he wouldn't have been around to hear considering he was abducted from Earth in the 80s. That insult would have made more sense coming from one of the Avengers.

Poor Rocket was probably a bit embarrassed when he realised Peter had been right all along though.

In short: James Gunn, explain yourself!

[catyuy]

I also need a fic where Yondu has to deal with kid Peter, teen Kraglin, kid Mantis and kid Rocket's friends. Extra credit for Meredith and/or Starkar's Ravagers.

[little-miss-dilf-lover]

hiya! so I was thinking about Peter Quill with an artistic reader (in the form of headcanons) bc omg i think that'd be absolutely adorable and ive been going in a spiral for him lately

Just a thought! You dont need to do it if youre busy, have a great week!

hii! omg yes I love it. and don’t worry me you and everyone else feels the same way😭 ive been defending him in comment sections for years so im glad he’s finally getting recognition he deserves. big up quill. I also did this first, as it was a fun sorta break in between other writing. thank you for requesting, hope you like it💌 have a great weekend also. xo

headcanons/ imagines (2)

Peter Quill x reader (gn)

warnings || none

masterlist + rules

taglist

- he doesn’t always have the best attention span, but when it comes to you he could watch you paint/ draw for hours. it’s something that keeps him entertained

- he likes to ask questions/ communicate while you work “that’s cool, what does that do?” or “how did you do that?” feel like he’d be mesmerised watching the canvas come to life

- you both listen to his music while you do anything artsy, the combination is the best of both worlds

- but if he’s not watching you/ hanging around at the same time, you like to listen to his music so it feels like he’s still there. he’s silently caught you a few times and it makes him feel special that his music means so much to you

- he definitely brags to the other guardians about how talented you are (like tony and thor talking about their girls in age of ultron)

- I feel like he can be a great helper- if you’re at the easel, he stands next to you holding the things you need so you don’t have to keep bending/ reaching etc. or if you need a brush cleaned, he’d do it for you

- if you wanted to do pottery, he’d get rocket to make you a pottery wheel, whatever you needed, rocket will make

- if you live with him in his apartment on knowhere, he’s moved his things about so that you could paint by the window/ designated a space/ area for you to work at (he remembers watching bob ross a couple times when he was a kid, so he used the tips he learned and put them into practice for you)

- if and when he sees any kind of art materials on other planets, he definitely brings them back for you. over a while you’ve acquired quite a diverse set of tools that’s broadened the quality of your art

- I feel like he’d kind of pimp you out- would put your name out there to get more people to commission work from you

- you’re now the go-to that people come to when they want new things for their houses. a majority of people on knowhere have probably bought work from you

- you’ve made pieces for every guardian, something specific and detailed that has meaning to each individual (kind of like the holiday special) you’d be very creative and intricate in tailoring the work to the person

- mantis absolutely adores what you made. nebula was apprehensive at first but you caught her smiling when she thought you weren’t paying attention. drax goes into great detail when he describes what he loves about it, always using crazy big adjectives. rocket said he doesn’t care for art, but the way it’s displayed in his apartment tells you otherwise. and groot was super happy to have something made by you

- quill has treasured everything you’ve ever made him, he can be very sentimental so all the work you made is something he deeply appreciates. something minuscule you made at the beginning of the relationship, is kept in one of his memory boxes (like a flower made of tissue)

- maybe you’ve made things to honour his parents, using stories he’s told you into creating something beautiful (two separate pieces- one of meredith and one of yondu) they are something he has hung up and displayed in his apartment. I feel like it’s helped him deal with his grief- and over time he’s been able to look at the artwork without feeling sad. now he can smile when he sees their faces

- its definitely made him fall harder for you

[themculibrary]

Yondu Masterlist

ain’t no river wide enough (ao3) - xahra99 T, 10k

Summary: “It’s okay to be afraid. But don’t ever let fear stop ya from doin’ what ya think ya gotta.” Peter and Yondu head down planetside for some Ravager-style life lessons. Unsurprisingly, things don’t go to plan. Set before the first movie. One-shot. Complete.

ain’t no road just like it (ao3) - xahra99 G, 3k

Summary: “Don’ t see why you’re so bothered. Not like he’s your kid.” Kraglin and Yondu argue over Quill, or, how Kraglin ends up with the Zune Yondu bought for Peter. Set between the first and second movies. Gen. Complete.

base of support (ao3) - interabang T, 3k

Summary: The Guardians discover that Yondu would do anything (when he feels like it) to give Peter help when he needs it.

celestial aegis (ao3) - Jastra T, 6k

Summary: During a skirmish between Ravagers and rivaling pirate group, young Peter gets grabbed by the enemy leader. Yondu shows the pirates what happens when someone dares to hurt his boy.

father figure (ao3) - laylabinx T, 27k

Summary: Five times Yondu maybe, kinda, sorta, almost claimed Peter as a son and one time he totally did. Nothing too intense, just a little Yondu/Peter father-ish/son-ish bonding-ish. Almost entirely pre-movie.

fox on the run (ao3) - Sholio T, 13k

Summary: When bounty hunters get the drop on Yondu, 11-year-old Peter is the only person in a position to do anything about it.

go for the throat (ao3) - laylabinx T, 9k

Summary: Peter finds out the hard way what it means to be the Ravager mascot and Yondu uses this as an opportunity to teach him how to kick someone’s ass.

Highway To Hell (ao3) - MeganBStrange T, 49k

Summary: Yondu dies in the arms of his son, and wakes up with a second chance.

Yondu's gonna try and do better this time, but lets face it he's still gonna fuck it up. It's the thought that counts.

i got a landmine in my bloodline (ao3) - laylabinx T, 23k

Summary: Peter develops appendicitis. Yondu develops a heart. It’s all very problematic.

peter quill and the (mostly) terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day (ao3) - rohanrider3 Rating: Teen And Up

Summary: In which Ego is a jackass, Yondu gets (temporarily) mind-controlled, Peter survives an insane amount of insanity in a short period of time, it isn’t wise to (SIMULTANEOUSLY) tick off the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Ravagers, and the Nova Corps…

Oh. Also, Meredith Quill is, somehow, back from the dead. And hurting her son? Yeah. You just made a _huge_ mistake.

(AU of Guardians Vol. 2 where Ego pulls a Xanatos Gambit and tries to distract Nova Corps, frame Yondu, and kill the Guardians before taking Peter. It doesn’t go as well as he’d planned. Also, Mantis is a little younger in this version, about 13 or so.)

Pitbull (ao3) - jellybeanforest T, 9k

Summary: Quill is not built to be a Ravager. Much too small and soft in all meanings of the word, the boy will be dead within the year if Yondu can’t break and remold him into something useful. So he decides to take Quill out on solo missions to train him, greatly taxing his already limited patience. Unfortunately, on one of their outings, Yondu’s past comes back to haunt them in the form of a Kree bounty hunter contracted by Yondu’s original owner: his breeder. Now, he must save himself and his young protégé from a life of slavery before they reach Hala.

Red (ao3) - jackfish (Delphi) yondu/kraglin M, 4k

Summary: Eyes, skies, uniforms, and killings—instances of the colour red in the life of Kraglin Obfonteri.

the fault in distant stars (ao3) - Donatello7 T, 11k

Summary: Prompt fill for LilRed7503

‘peter abused back on earth, by someone don’t care who. With the ravagers he’s terrified not because they kidnapped him but because their adults. It takes Yondu no time at all to figure out, especially since Peter keeps flinching expecting a slap. Yondu + ravagers prove to Peter that nothing is his fault and he didn’t deserve it’

The Future Is Yet Unwritten (ao3) - Rebel_Atar yondu/kraglin E, 15k

Summary: An encounter with a strange artefact forever changes Yondu's life and now he is determined to change his death too.

The Way We Were (ao3) - effiegogo yondu/kraglin T, 16k

Summary: After a crash, Yondu can't remember the last seven years of his life, including being exiled by Stakar Ogord and the acquisition of a certain Terran child.

Watch The Wall (ao3) - Run_Ravager_Run yondu/kraglin T, 49k

Summary: Peter Quill, abducted at eight, settles into life as a very small boy in a very big galaxy. He cheats, he lies, he steals. And he shuts his eyes and covers his ears, whenever Yondu tells him.

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

OMG?!??!

I hadn't watched the Guardians of the Galaxy holyday special!! Was anybody gonna tell me it actually confirmed that Mantis is Ego's daughter or was I supposed to find that out in a YouTube comment myself?!??!?

I'm so freaking happy :D this is the first time a headcanon I subscribe to has ever been made official!!! I was CONVINCED that Mantis was one of Ego's kids when GotG2 came out (it was perfectly logical - why would Ego take notice of a random kid to enslave, when his main characteristic is making kids with all known species and taking them to back to his planet and only killing them when they prove useless to him? We know he mated with one of Mantis' species from his displays - hence he necessarily had an empath kid, so no need to go grab one unrelated to him: Mantis was useful so he kept her, like a "flea with a purpose.") I never expected it to be acknowledged tho!! But the plot bunnies are back!! The fluff is back!!! Peter has a sis sjsjdsjsjszjkz 💛💛 I can go back to imagining Ravager AUs where Mantis gets picked up by Yondu along with Peter 😍 or even better, grows up with Meredith.

GotG is the only Marvel franchise that still elicits feels in me. It actually cares enough to flesh out its characters in ways by building from the little things (like Yondu's fatherly love for Peter was possible to conjecture from the first movie but was still unsubstantiated until the second, like Kraglin being Peter's "big bro" from the Ravagers was just hinted at but now he's part of the Guardian fam, and like Mantis obviously being one of Ego kids is finally a thing) so that the audience can pick up on the clues and predict how the relationships are naturally going to develop. It doesn't betray the viewers by dropping the subtext bc the writers have changed their minds and playing dumb and saying people imagined things that weren't there - it follows things through!!!!

Anyway I KNEW IT. I FREAKING KNEW IT!! MANTIS IS PETER'S SISTER BAAAAYBEEE!!!!

[yaka-arrow]

Working on a really self-indulgent fic for myself. I'll be updating it every week or so? Short chapters, so hopefully won't be too bad a slog for folks. But it'll feature Yondu/Meredith with a side of step-daddy Yondu with Peter.

[raccoonfallsharder]

rewatching gotg2 as I work on the corresponding chapters of window

a few thoughts

ego’s SUCH a fuckin dick.

Quill: But my mother…you said you loved my mother. Ego: And that I did. My river lily who knew all the words to every song that came over the radio. I returned to Earth to see her three times. And I knew if I returned a fourth…i’d never leave. The Expansion…the reason for my very existence, would be over. So, I did what I had to do. But...it broke my heart to put that tumor in her head...

you are a god sir??? you’ve been around for millennia on millennia and you couldn’t wait what, a max of seventy years for meredith to die of natural causes?? you coulda had your cake and eaten it too, you enormous planet-sized dumbass

also

Rocket Raccoon: Keep that transmitter nearby, so I can find you. We’re in an old piece of construction equipment Yondu once used…to slice open the Bank of A‘askavaria.

i can only assume it was during this bank heist that pete fucked the A'askavariian mentioned in volume 1 (maybe this has already been talked about by people but it's a new thing for me!)

also i’ve mentioned before that drax’s nurturing instincts impacted the plot of this volume in a big way thanks to the bond he developed with mantis, born explicitly out of him seeing his daughter in her. it was this bond that convinced mantis to tell him about ego’s plan. BUT ALSO it is how he convinced mantis to try to put ego to sleep, buying the guardians valuable time. AND MORE. love drax so much

also i didn’t realize it but we get another “yeah” moment from rocket in the middle of this fight on ego. that fuckin voice

and the lingering closing shot on rocket and his tears - the fact that he is the only focus of this film’s final shot - it wrecks me every time

okay that’s all

[soba-riri]

Suddenly thinking of the Guardians in a human mad max setting.

Peter grew up in a group of Rock Riders. Gamora and Nebula are the daughters/executioners of Thanos, the ruler of The Black Order with his children. Rocket used to be a slave/universal blood donor, Groot came from the Green Place, and Drax's family got killed while trying to escape.

Mantis is stuck in a cult where people see Ego as a God.

Peter wants to split from Yondu but can't out of self-preservation. He resents Yondu for taking him away from his mother but also knows that he survived this long thanks to him.

Gamora yearns to be out of Thanos' rule, tired of being used as his weapon to cut down the Wretches and anyone that opposes him. She finally finds the chance to escape when Thanos orders Ronan on a mission. Gamora escapes in a vehicle, but Nebula hitches a ride, ready to deliver punishment for her betrayal. Then things happen, and let's just say they have a truce.

Rocket fixes cars and makes weapons from parts from people he steals from. He travels with Groot and is always paranoid. The tattoo on his back marks him as a universal donor, and he'll raise hell before he lets anyone take his blood again.

Groot comes from the Green Place and carries around a bag of seeds. He travels with Rocket after saving him from death and tending to his injuries. He only says I, Am, and Groot in the specific order.

Drax's family was murderer by Ronan during a raid. Now Drax travels in search of his family's killer and hopefully reunites with his wife and daughter once he completes his revenge.

When not playing the role Ego sets her to play, Mantis reads forgotten books in the library. Eagerly escaping the world through stories and history. There's also an unfinished map hidden in a drawer, but she doesn't touch that. She has a strange knack in knowing how someone is feeling. Probably from handling her father's worshipers.

When word is out that Ego is looking for his child, various people come in hopes they'll be let into his kingdom. One by one, they do, but they never come back out.

Peter’s the key to finding a place with water and flourishing life. Upon finding it, Ego would be able to expand his power.

Meredith had half a map on her back, and Peter has the other half on his. Peter doesn't know the significance of the marking on his back, tho, only thinking it as one of the gifts his mother left behind.

Yondu knows what it's like to be a slave. He likes to forget, but he never does. But that's in the past, and he has his group of Riders to look after. But Ego requests to bring kids in from the west. Orphans specifically. In exchange for food and water. Who was Yondu to refuse? Especially when a father is desperately looking for his kid. His own parents sold him for resources.

So Yondu does the job, and he never sees the kids he delivers. One day, Ego lets him up as a reward. There was only Mantis and Ego. No kids. Ego doesn't give him a straight answer when he asks about them. Instead, Ego offers him another exchange for another child.

Yondu leaves, and he finds a kid curled next to a dying woman. He takes one look and knows the kid is Ego's son. While his green eyes are from his mother, the boy looks like the splitting image of his father.

The boy snarls as Yondu approaches his mother, and the woman uses her dying breath to utter a single plea.

"Take my hand, Peter."

The boy doesn't take her hand, and her hand falls. The boy screams as Yondu yanks him away. The boy thrashes and curses up a storm, impassive for the little tyke.

Then he feels a stab of pain and looks to see the boy stabbed his shoulder with a tiny knife.

He thinks about his parents, about Ego, about the children he never saw agai. About the woman and her plea.

Yondu grins and announces that instead of eating the boy as he planned, he's make a Road Rider out of Peter. Just he wait.